In Your Embrace
“ The roof sags and caves in. The walls splinter and collapse, flattening the building to the ground.
“Hannah!”
The men yank him back as the awning nearby detaches from the wall and slams to the ground only a few feet from where he stood. “I heard her scream,” he says in a daze, turning to look at Rubin. “She’s hurt!”
The older man nods, the graying hair at his temples no longer visible against the mortar that clings to his coarse hair. “There’s nothing you can do for that girl now.”
Timothy knows that Hannah’s screams will haunt him till the day he dies. But as he glances back at Pastor Justin, his chest swells with gratitude when he sees that the man is starting to come around.
“You did everything you could,” Rubin soothes. “She knew the risks when she went in there.”
“So did I. I never should have allowed her to go.”
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